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Augmented Reality: Google’s Project Glass engineers

*Engineers. Engineers are great, even when they’re nowhere near an actual “engine” and are actually freaked-out ex-Stanford Googler coder guys. You know how I’m always valorizing tech-art dudes on the blog here, like, “Hey wow this Berlin guy is so hip because he laser-graffitied the Norman Foster Reichstag,” or whatever?

“The post on Google+ announcing the project to the world was signed by three individuals: Babak Parviz, Steve Lee and Sebastian Thrun.

“Parviz is an electrical engineer and professor at the University of Washington who’s already made a splash with his work on contact lenses that have small circuits and displays for use in health care. He discussed his work at Google’s recent “Solve for X” forum, which focused on using technology to improve the human condition.

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“Lee is a product manager at Google who previously led the company’s mobile maps and location services group. (…)

“Thrun most recently made headlines as one of the brains behind Udacity, the online university that aims to offer a university-level education to any person in the world. He’s also one of the brains behind another high-profile Google project, the self-driving car. A former Stanford University professor, he used to lead the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory….”